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Twelve local residents from Leader, Sask., posed for a calendar decrying the condition of a local highway. (Sask Highway 32 campaign)

A publicity campaign featuring rural Saskatchewan residents in the buff and posing along a stretch of pothole-damaged highway has paid off.

On Friday, people from Leader, Sask., and other communities along...

Blair River stands 6 feet 8 inches tall and weighs about 600 pounds. His weight and his enthusiasm for the food at Chandler's Heart Attack Grill have won him a $100-an-hour modeling contract.

This week he shot a YouTube video commercial to promote the grill, which invites anyone over 350 pounds to eat for free.

River, who lives in Mesa and...

In the wake of a rancorous national election, the future's sent us a savior: a cyborg Abraham Lincoln. CyberAbe will appeal to the better angels of our nature with rousing rhetoric and a stovetop hat that transforms into a bazooka.

This mutton-chopped prezbot is actually the Audio-Animatronics Abraham Lincoln from the 1964/1965 New York World's...

MONTREAL - Canada was picked No. 1 in a global survey of countries with the most favourable brand, thanks to a boost from the Vancouver Olympics.

A strategy to put the country on the top podium was actually devised years before the Winter Games.

It involved having a Bollywood star carry the Olympic Torch; bringing an NBC sports reporter to...

FRIDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Despite reports that the rate of obesity among U.S. adults might be slowing down, a new projection from Harvard University and MIT suggests otherwise.
Instead, using a sophisticated model that views obesity like an infectious disease, the team predicts that adult obesity rates will rise for another 40 years...